Senate approves bill to expand Social Security to millions of Americans

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Legislation to expand Social Security benefits to millions of Americans passed the U.S. Senate early Saturday and is now headed to the desk of President Biden, who is expected to sign the measure into law.
61% : "Social Security is a bedrock of our middle class.
60% : The bill's passage is "a monumental victory for millions of public service workers who have been denied the full benefits they've rightfully earned," said Shannon Benton, executive director for the Senior Citizens League, which advocates for retirees and which has long pushed for the expansion of Social Security benefits.
60% : The bill would also end a second provision that reduces Social Security benefits for those workers' surviving spouses and family members.
50% : That includes those who also collect pensions from state and federal jobs that aren't covered by Social Security, including teachers, police officers and U.S. postal workers.
49% : "What is the Social Security Fairness Act?The Social Security Fairness Act would repeal two federal policies -- the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) -- that reduce Social Security payments to nearly 3 million retirees.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.